Why young people need sex education?Young people need accurate information to help them protect themselves. The United States has more than twice the rates of pregnancy than any other western industrialized country, more than a million teenagers become pregnant each year. Young people have the highest rates of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) than any other age group, one in four contract an STD before age 21. STDs, including HIV, can damage health and reproductive ability of a (a) young. There is no cure for AIDS.
